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These work great for most of your clamping needs from holding down a rafter so you can cut it to shape to holding a fence rail in place while you screw it down. The only thing these clamps don't do well is holding pieces together for glue-ups. The jaws are canted so that they will even out when the bar flexes under heavy clamping, so they will cant small pieces of wood a little during a glue up. I've got several that I've used for years and so far only one has cracked, but it still works fine. The biggest advantage of these clamps are that they are light weight, fast, and only need one hand to operate.

There are so many uses for these types of clamps it would take up pages. My friend turned me on to them when we were making jigs for a desk we were making together.

Like I said in the title they are like extra hands. You put them on and release them in seconds and don't have to go through keeping the pieces in place as you screw them together. This is not to say that the conventional clamps don't have there purpose because they do but this review isn't about them.

Speed, Strength, Handy, Many sizes, are all good words to describe theses clamps. Irwin is the leader in my mind as far as a manufacturer, but do your research for price and need and look for the sales that will help you build your stock up of what you eventually want to have on hand.

The mini bar clamps are lighter weight and therefore handier as a process-set-up and assembly tool. The simple one-handed tightening mechanism and non-marring contact pads are especially useful for cabinet parts glue-up. The release mechanism is the weak point; one can get a blood blister from recoil moving through the economy steel strap release lever.